Bill Text: NY A04731 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to establish and maintain a list of toxins which members of the military may have come into contact with and requires doctors to ask patients whether they have served in the military.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in health [A04731 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04731-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4731

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department  of health to establish and maintain a list of toxins which
          members of the military may have come into contact with and  requiring
          doctors to ask patients whether they have served in the military

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
     3    31. The commissioner shall compile and periodically update a  list  of
     4  toxic materials or harmful physical agents which members of the military
     5  may  have  come  into contact with as a result of military service.  The
     6  commissioner may consult with the Veterans Administration to  assist  in
     7  the  compilation of such list. The list shall be provided to all persons
     8  licensed to practice medicine in accordance  with  article  one  hundred
     9  thirty-one of the education law.
    10    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new article thirty-
    11  eight-A to read as follows:
    12                                 ARTICLE 38-A
    13                               VETERANS HEALTH
    14  Section 3810. Toxic materials and harmful physical agents.
    15    § 3810. Toxic materials  and  harmful  physical  agents.  All  doctors
    16  licensed  to  practice  medicine  in accordance with article one hundred
    17  thirty-one of the education law shall ask each patient whether he or she
    18  has served in the military and whether he or she has been exposed to any
    19  of the toxic materials or harmful physical agents included in  the  list
    20  compiled  by  the  commissioner,  pursuant  to subdivision thirty-one of
    21  section two hundred six of this chapter. When a doctor is  diagnosing  a
    22  patient  who has served in the military and who may have been exposed to
    23  any of the toxic materials or harmful physical agents included  in  such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06889-01-1
        A. 4731                             2

     1  list,  the  doctor shall include consideration of the patient's known or
     2  possible exposure to such toxic materials  or  harmful  physical  agents
     3  when forming a diagnosis.
     4    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately.  Effective immediately,
     5  the addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the
     6  implementation  of  this  act  on  its effective date are authorized and
     7  directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.